Habermas identifies three such media: speech, money, and power. Speech is the medium by which understanding is achieved in communicative action, while money and power are non-communicative media that coordinate action in realms like state bureaucracies or markets.

Public Sphere

Jurgen Habermas and his concept of the ‘Public Sphere‘,basically arguing that the developments in education and the mass media allowed for a greater access to information particularly with regard to government, authority and the exercise of control.

“a public sphere between the private domain and the state in which public opinion was formed and popular, supervision of government was established”

Media shouldn’t be controlled by the government and that freedom is needed

Mass Media in the Public Interest

Mass media is not the same as any other business or service industry, but carry out some essential tasks for the wider benefit of society, especially in cultural and political life.

A simple definition, drawn from the field of public planning is that something “is in the public interest if it serves the ends of the whole society rather than those of the sectors of the society” (Banfield 1995)

There is conflict between public control and deregulation